# Rizwan Ahmed (civil servant)

Rizwan Ahmed (Urdu: رضوان احمد) is a former grade 22 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service who served at the highest civil service office of Federal Secretary to the Government of Pakistan. He is currently a Member of Sindh Public Service Commission for a four-year term. Rizwan did his two-year Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University and holds the rare distinction of having served as the chief executive of four state-owned organisations under the Government of Pakistan, the most by any individual in history at the federal level.
He first came to the fore when he saved more than PKR 7 billion of the national exchequer through a sweeping anti-corruption drive and commodity financing operation during his tenure as Chairman of the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP).
Rizwan held the high profile portfolio of Maritime Secretary of Pakistan for a period of almost three years, during which he also became the first ever Pakistani to be appointed as Chairman of INFOFISH, an intergovernmental organisation setup by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.
He is considered to be one of the most successful Chairman of the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC), having extensively expanded the national fleet during his tenure which led to PNSC posting its highest ever profit of PKR 30 billion. He remains the only individual to have served twice as Chairman & CEO of PNSC.
He is a Certified Director from the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance and remained a Teaching Fellow for Financial Management at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was promoted to the highest bureaucratic rank of grade 22 in 2017.

## Family

Rizwan is the son of Jamil Ahmed, the former twice-elected and longest-serving Mayor of Hyderabad; and is the son-in-law of former FSC Chief Justice Haziqul Khairi.

## Career

Rizwan Ahmed joined the Pakistan Administrative Service in 1988 after passing the CSS examinations, and was first posted under the Government of the Punjab where he served in various capacities including as Director Local Government Bahawalpur Division and Assistant Commissioner of Rahim Yar Khan and Mianwali.
He then was transferred to the Government of Sindh where he served as Deputy Commissioner of Hyderabad - the then largest district in the province of Sindh. He also served as Secretary Sindh Local Government Board and Additional Home Secretary (Law Enforcement) after which he was promoted to the position of provincial secretary and held the assignments of Health Secretary of Sindh, Secretary General Administration (SGA&CD Sindh) and Secretary to Governor Sindh.
Rizwan Ahmed then joined the Government of Pakistan where he held key assignments including that of Chairman Trading Corporation of Pakistan, Chairman Pakistan National Shipping Corporation, Additional Establishment Secretary and Additional Cabinet Secretary, before being elevated to the country's highest bureaucratic rank of Grade 22 and subsequently being appointed to the coveted office of Federal Secretary for Maritime Affairs - a position he held till he reached his age of superannuation. At the time of his retirement from active civil service, Rizwan Ahmed was one of the country's senior-most federal secretaries and was also serving as Member of the Central Selection Board.
After his retirement from active civil service, he was made Member Sindh Public Service Commission for a period of four years.